Introduced by E. Chaté et fils, sentier Saint-Antoine, Saint-Mandé, Paris, France, EU. in 1862.
This cultivar does not normally flower in northern climates, but if kept growing over the winter in a heated greenhouse or conservatory it will happily bloom either in late spring or late summer.

The earliest known book on Canna is "Le Canna" by M. Chaté and Sons, 1867, which provides us with the correct spelling of this cultivars name.